Aaranyam is an incompetent thriller by debutant director Kuberji featuring a bevy of newcomers. The underwhelming staging of scenes, suspense-less plot twists, the cliched characterization of leads and the stereotyped supporting characters make Aaranyam one of the avoidable films to hit screens this year.

Ram is a not a kleptomaniac but he finds himself satisfied with petty robberies to make ends meet. When Ram decides to take his robbery to the next level with a peculiarly planned theft, Neeraja grabs him with his trousers down by shooting the entire process on her mobile phone. Here, comes the obvious in-your-face twist. Neeraja's father is a police inspector working in the local station where Ram resides. Neeraja passes the video to her father and Ram is locked behind the bars.

After Ilavarasu, who plays the father of Ram, rescues him from police station, Ram embarks to seek revenge on Neeraja. In his quest to settle scores with Neeraja, Ram robs her mobile phone.

The cat and mouse drama ensues for quite some time leaving the audience to take smoking breaks at occasional informal intervals. I'm pretty sure you must have already guessed the next plot twist. Neeraja gradually begins to feel sympathetic towards Ram and the couple falls in love with each other.

Neeraja's father, who is peeved by her relationship with Ram, hires contract killers to murder Ram and bring Neeraja back. The resulting consequences are narrated miserably through the rest of the story.

This sort of measure for measure, old-fashioned love-laced-with-revenge type stories are done to death in Tamil cinema. And yet, in 2015, we still have a film that comes right under our nose and sticks out as a sore thumb.

Apart from few middling performances, there is nothing to root for in Aaranyam, which is a terribly cliched film-making with overflowing banalities and caricatured characters.

Kamal Haasan is an undercover cop working for the narcotics bureau. He is also very fond of his son (Aman Abdullah). Kamal conducts a very risky operation involving a huge stash of cocaine and drug dealers who won't show mercy if their loot were to be compromised.

He soon gets entangled in a vicious drug war which leaves his family in grave danger. Prakash Raj, a nightclub owner who sells these drugs to the dealers, kidnaps Kamal's son and demands the bag of cocaine as terms for his release.

Working frantically against the ticking clock, Kamal needs to find this bag soon; but things get rather complicated when agents from his own department (Trisha & Kishore) intercept the bag and suspect him of playing a double game. It remains to be seen if the co-conspirators could be outsmarted and Kamal Haasan's son, saved.

Manoj works as a police officer in Ooty. He learns that a group of four people are involved in illegal activities. Manoj, along with his friend and four police cops, go on a mission to arrest them.

The accompanying cops are killed in the shoot-out that happens in the process. And Manoj’s friend gets trapped in the clutches of the gang. Manoj kills the all the four members of the gang and saves his friend’s life.

In the meantime, Manoj gets to know the background of this gang. Manoj also falls in love with Vinitha and gets married to her. But Vinitha wants to kill him. Who are the members of the gang? Is Vinitha in any way related to them? Watch the whole movie to unfold these questions.